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Wondrous, dense and utterly abstruse, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is the sort of film that surrenders more on a second viewing. Or third, or eighth. Yet, it still doesn’t surrender everything. If anything it asks surrender of the viewer. To watch Upstream Color is to accept incongruity, embrace…

Long time children’s hospital actress, and frequent ‘that girl’ actress Lake Bell tries her hand at directing with In a World, with mostly pleasing results. The title, a riff on a famous trailer voiceover opening line popularised by real life industry veteran Don LaFontaine, explains the basis of this…

The films of Jeff Nichols are all very much informed by the South, none more so than his prototypical frontier fable, Mud. One of the most impressive and consistent American filmmakers currently working, Jeff Nichols has now made three sprawling dramas where the ways and workings of the South play…

Cracks emerge, wrinkles deepen, and imperfections long simmering under the surface manifest themselves in Lynn Shelton’s sense obsessed follow up to her similarly intimate last feature_ Your Sister’s Sister. _ A loose psychological character study, Touchy Feely looks at the lives of two unfulfilled siblings, a masseuse who becomes…

A good issue documentary should educate as well as incense, and as much as the content contained is pertinent and its message valuable, Roger Ross William’s God Loves Uganda contains little actual information that the general news coverage of the atrocities of the Ugandan Anti-Homosexual campaigns had not already…